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title: Second Chance to ‘Do Good’ at UMD
date: 2024-10-03T05:30:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/second-chance-to-do-good-at-umd"
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# Second Chance to ‘Do Good’ at UMD

*October 3, 2024* — by [Karen Shih ’09](/author/karen-shih)


> New Round of Campus Grants to Award Up to $320K for Student, Faculty, Staff Projects

*DSC 5717 1920x10802 — More than 500 Prince George's County students participated in the GOAL Challenge engineering program hosted at Ritchie Coliseum in July. It was funded in part by a Good Campus Fund grant, one of 27 awarded last year.*

Amid shelves of beige pasta and grains and bags of black and brown beans, a colorful array of purple Japanese eggplants, sun-ripened cherry tomatoes and crisp green cucumbers beckoned visitors to the University of Maryland[ Campus Pantry](https://dining.umd.edu/sustainability/campus-pantry) early this fall.

For the nearly one in four students who experience food insecurity at UMD, the ability to pick up farm-fresh, locally grown veggies in addition to shelf-stable staples is thanks in part to College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Principal Lecturer Meredith Epstein and campus partners in Dining Services, the UMD Arboretum and Botanical Garden, and the Counseling Center. Since the summer, they’ve harvested more than 20,000 pounds of produce from[ Terp Farm](https://terp.umd.edu/farm-to-table-umd-style) and the [Community Learning Garden](http://agnr.umd.edu/outside-classroom/clubs-and-organizations/community-learning-garden/) for UMD’s pantry—open to anyone with a UMD ID but primarily for students—and other hunger relief organizations.


*Students harvest vegetables — Students harvest vegetables at the Community Learning Garden. (Photo by Lindsay Barranco)*



**Sidebar note:**

[Do Good Campus Fund](https://dogood.umd.edu/research-impact/projects/do-good-campus-fund)  
Application Deadline: Nov. 4  
Awarded Funds Available: July 1, 2025  
Grant Sizes: $5,000 for student groups; up to $35,000 for staff and faculty





**Topics:** [Campus & Community](https://today.umd.edu/tags/campus-community)


**Tags:** [Student Experience](https://today.umd.edu/topic/student-experience)


**Units:** [A. James Clark School of Engineering](https://today.umd.edu/topic/james-clark-school-engineering), [College of Agriculture and Natural Resources](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-agriculture-and-natural-resources), [College of Education](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-education), [Dining Services](https://today.umd.edu/topic/dining-services), [Division of Student Affairs](https://today.umd.edu/topic/division-student-affairs), [School of Public Policy](https://today.umd.edu/topic/school-public-policy)